Acrobat 9 Preflight Panels

[gnubler]

What's prompted this thread is a terribly embarrassing confession. Today I discovered that there are actually three layers within the Preflight panel (tiny icons along the top of the window). I never had a pressing need to click on them, but just discovered a bunch more options for in-app PDF editing. What prompted my discovery was to see if there was an action for watermarking pages (didn't see anything, did I miss it?) I use the Preflight panel for converting to grayscale 99% of the time.

Wondering who else uses Acrobat's built-in tools frequently and which ones you find most useful. Has anyone created their own actions and can it be done by the average dork or is it more complex than that?

For those who don't know, I don't have Pitstop but am going to push for it within the next 6 months when we get a new press in the shop.

[Joe]

What's prompted this thread is a terribly embarrassing confession. Today I discovered that there are actually three layers within the Preflight panel (tiny icons along the top of the window). I never had a pressing need to click on them, but just discovered a bunch more options for in-app PDF editing. What prompted my discovery was to see if there was an action for watermarking pages (didn't see anything, did I miss it?) I use the Preflight panel for converting to grayscale 99% of the time.

Wondering who else uses Acrobat's built-in tools frequently and which ones you find most useful. Has anyone created their own actions and can it be done by the average dork or is it more complex than that?

For those who don't know, I don't have Pitstop but am going to push for it within the next 6 months when we get a new press in the shop.

I haven't really needed to try those since I have Pitstop. Generally I've found almost anything Acrobat can do Pitstop does much better. I guess that makes me a Pitstop snob.

[Tracy]

I use the convert colors alot
I can convert all the images in one click to a PS custom Profile to lower ink density.
I have found doing this with a quark pdf can move images, no probs on indy pdfs tho.

[gnubler]

Generally I've found almost anything Acrobat can do Pitstop does much better. I guess that makes me a Pitstop snob.

Lucky you. Hopefully by next spring I'll be a Pitstop snob, too. I am a beer snob, though.

[gnubler]

How can I convert rich black text within Acrobat? I'm not seeing it in the Preflight tools. I ran the check "Text uses rich black" and it seems like it didn't work because all the text is rich black but it didn't flag it as such.

I don't have Pitstop and I won't open this wicked thing in Illy.

[t-pat]

global change, change specific color. Select object to change, grab fill, type in what you want it to be, save and run - at least that's how I've been doing it since this new version. There are other things in there that may do it with one click such as "make all black real black", ymmv

btw this is pitstop 10, it was simpler in 9 imo, but in the same place "Global Change" - grab fill.

[gnubler]

I don't have Pitstop.

Can this be done within Acrobat?

[NefariousDrO]

I think you'll have to use Illustrator, alas. If you use the "edit object" tool you should be able to just grab the part you want to edit and not the entire PDF.

[gnubler]

All the body copy is broken into "sections", line by line as usual. Can't just select an entire paragraph and change color.

[David]

Is the pdf all rich black text with no images?

[Joe]

All the body copy is broken into "sections", line by line as usual. Can't just select an entire paragraph and change color.

You can shift click until you have them all selected, then right click and "Select Objects". Should open it in Illustrator to edit. Save from Illustrator and it will save back to the PDF.

[Sabrina The Turd Polisher]

All the body copy is broken into "sections", line by line as usual. Can't just select an entire paragraph and change color.

"select same color" from Illy...bam!

[gnubler]

Is the pdf all rich black text with no images?

Full color images w/ rich black text.

Don't want to open in Illy, it has like 85 funky fonts embedded in the PDF. 

[David]

send it to me if you can, I'll run it through Pitstop.

[Sabrina The Turd Polisher]

David to the rescue!
(screw you Jim Dandy!)